Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 298 299
Rank change year-on-year +56 +1 -105
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 573 587 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.87% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.05% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 241 279 443
10th Percentile £42,080 £44,350 £45,950
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,786 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,672 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +9.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +62 509 £70,000 - 523
London +92 281 £80,000 +1.59% 260
UK excluding London -3 245 £62,500 -3.85% 249
Work from Home +2 150 £70,000 +7.69% 285
South East +28 93 £62,500 -3.85% 86
North of England +19 45 £70,000 - 54
Midlands +11 38 £64,000 -8.57% 26
East of England +38 25 £73,500 +1.38% 31
West Midlands +21 25 £57,468 -13.26% 17
Yorkshire +15 23 £77,500 +11.67% 18
North West +13 21 £66,250 -5.36% 26
South West +1 18 £62,500 +19.05% 27
Northern Ireland +13 14 - - 6
East Midlands -7 11 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Scotland -1 9 £42,000 -29.33% 14
Wales +5 4 £53,750 -12.98% 7
North East 0 1 - - 10

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (2.97%) Confluence
2 6 (1.05%) CMS
2 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.35%) CICS
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.35%) MTS
4 1 (0.17%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.52%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.49%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.40%) Shopify
4 5 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.70%) Maximo
6 1 (0.17%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (15.53%) Azure
2 81 (14.14%) SaaS
3 66 (11.52%) AWS
4 47 (8.20%) GCP
5 31 (5.41%) PaaS
6 30 (5.24%) Vertex AI
7 28 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.32%) Azure AI
8 19 (3.32%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.27%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.09%) GitHub
11 8 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (0.70%) IaaS
14 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 3 (0.52%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (0.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.57%) 5G
2 8 (1.40%) Broadband
3 7 (1.22%) PSTN
3 7 (1.22%) RTP
4 6 (1.05%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.87%) DNS
5 5 (0.87%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.87%) WAN
5 5 (0.87%) Wireless
6 4 (0.70%) LAN
6 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.52%) HTTP
7 3 (0.52%) Network Security
7 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.35%) Firewall
8 2 (0.35%) LTE
8 2 (0.35%) Modbus
8 2 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.84%) Relational Database
2 20 (3.49%) Metadata
3 19 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.14%) Data Mining
4 18 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.79%) RDBMS
6 15 (2.62%) Power BI
7 14 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.40%) KDB
8 8 (1.40%) Kdb+
9 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
10 6 (1.05%) SAP BW
10 6 (1.05%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.87%) Tableau
12 4 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.35%) DB2
14 1 (0.17%) Big Data
14 1 (0.17%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 39 (6.81%) JIRA
2 7 (1.22%) TeamCity
3 5 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.87%) Spinnaker
4 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.70%) ERwin
4 4 (0.70%) YouTrack
5 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.35%) Bazaar
7 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 233 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 203 (35.43%) Finance
3 133 (23.21%) Marketing
4 130 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (14.31%) Law
6 63 (10.99%) Legal
7 49 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (8.55%) Retail
8 44 (7.68%) Banking
9 36 (6.28%) Financial Institution
9 36 (6.28%) Manufacturing
10 31 (5.41%) Electronics
11 29 (5.06%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.36%) Telecoms
13 24 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (3.14%) Billing
14 18 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (2.79%) Digital Economy
16 11 (1.92%) Games
16 11 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (26.18%) Product Manager
2 97 (16.93%) Lead
3 75 (13.09%) Senior
4 29 (5.06%) Senior Manager
5 26 (4.54%) Product Owner
6 24 (4.19%) Architect
7 22 (3.84%) Security Engineer
8 20 (3.49%) Senior Product Manager
9 19 (3.32%) Developer
9 19 (3.32%) Product Management Director
10 16 (2.79%) Product Delivery Manager
10 16 (2.79%) Software Engineer
11 15 (2.62%) Product Lead
12 14 (2.44%) Digital Product Manager
12 14 (2.44%) Technical Support
13 13 (2.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (2.27%) Python Developer
14 12 (2.09%) Change Manager
14 12 (2.09%) Python Engineer
14 12 (2.09%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.66%) YAML
2 19 (3.32%) REST
3 17 (2.97%) Flask
4 13 (2.27%) Keras
4 13 (2.27%) PyTorch
4 13 (2.27%) TensorFlow
5 11 (1.92%) FastAPI
6 8 (1.40%) Node.js
7 7 (1.22%) .NET
7 7 (1.22%) EDI
8 6 (1.05%) React
9 5 (0.87%) Django
10 4 (0.70%) JSON
10 4 (0.70%) OAuth
10 4 (0.70%) SAML
10 4 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.70%) SAPUI5
10 4 (0.70%) SOAP
10 4 (0.70%) XML
11 3 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.01%) Product Ownership
2 54 (9.42%) Onboarding
3 43 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (6.46%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.84%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.66%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.32%) Algorithms
8 18 (3.14%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.79%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.44%) Driving Licence
10 14 (2.44%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.09%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.09%) Social Media
12 9 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.57%) Derivative
12 9 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.40%) Tandem
14 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.05%) IoT
15 6 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.40%) Windows
2 7 (1.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) AIX
3 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.35%) zOS
4 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (46.60%) Roadmaps
2 239 (41.71%) Agile
3 158 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (22.34%) Product Strategy
5 123 (21.47%) Product Roadmap
6 100 (17.45%) Analytics
7 97 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (16.23%) AI
9 87 (15.18%) Computer Science
10 82 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 81 (14.14%) User Experience
12 79 (13.79%) Information Security
13 76 (13.26%) B2B
14 75 (13.09%) Decision-Making
15 73 (12.74%) DevOps
16 72 (12.57%) Value Proposition
17 69 (12.04%) Coaching
18 68 (11.87%) Strategic Thinking
19 67 (11.69%) Machine Learning
20 64 (11.17%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 52 (9.08%) Python
2 44 (7.68%) SQL
3 21 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.79%) Java
5 6 (1.05%) C#
6 5 (0.87%) Go
7 3 (0.52%) C++
7 3 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.35%) Bash
8 2 (0.35%) COBOL
8 2 (0.35%) JCL
8 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.35%) Scala
9 1 (0.17%) Groovy
9 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.17%) PHP
9 1 (0.17%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 139 (24.26%) Degree
2 63 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (9.25%) Master's Degree
4 29 (5.06%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.49%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.40%) MBA
7 7 (1.22%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.22%) CSPO
7 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.22%) PMP
8 5 (0.87%) CISSP
9 4 (0.70%) CISM
9 4 (0.70%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.52%) CITP
10 3 (0.52%) HNC
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.11%) QA
2 33 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.54%) NIST
4 22 (3.84%) NCSC
5 20 (3.49%) Data Quality
6 17 (2.97%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.40%) GDPR
7 8 (1.40%) ISO 20022
8 6 (1.05%) SEPA
9 5 (0.87%) IFRS
9 5 (0.87%) ISO 8583
9 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.87%) PMO
10 4 (0.70%) PSD2
11 3 (0.52%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) COREP
12 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.35%) FINREP
13 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (2.79%) Docker
2 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.22%) vSphere
3 2 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.35%) RACF
3 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (3.32%) Terraform
2 16 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.05%) Ansible
4 4 (0.70%) Puppet
4 4 (0.70%) Salt
4 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.35%) WSUS
6 1 (0.17%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 84 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.42%) Google
3 25 (4.36%) Foundry
4 24 (4.19%) Databricks
5 22 (3.84%) SAP
6 21 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.62%) Dell
7 15 (2.62%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.27%) NVIDIA
9 11 (1.92%) Oracle
10 7 (1.22%) VMware
11 6 (1.05%) Zoho
12 5 (0.87%) Manugistics
13 4 (0.70%) Apple
13 4 (0.70%) Vertica
14 3 (0.52%) Adobe
14 3 (0.52%) Sage
14 3 (0.52%) YouTube
15 2 (0.35%) Fujitsu
15 2 (0.35%) TikTok